Month: November 2005

Slow Monday

I have tons to get done this week at work (next week is a travel week for me, so I’ll get my mandatory dose of Westchester County December), but I had a hard time getting any focus today. I did manage to accomplish a few simple tasks early in the day, but I found it enormously difficult to start reading the two documents I have to digest and recommend which one should be chosen as the approach to a project — and I have to do it by the end of the week, preferably by Wednesday afternoon.

So I temporized and wrote comments on yet another document; one which was clearly lower priority, even though the authors were friends and so I wanted to help them. But at least it was easy reading and commenting, so I was able to get that obligation off my plate.

And I did finally start on one of the two key documents for the week; I should be able to finish a first pass on both documents tomorrow, even though I’ll have to leave work early for Parent/Teacher conferences at Kehillah.

A catch in my referer log

One advantage of having a low-volume blog is that I check out my referer log fairly often. To be more accurate, I use the digested version provided by SiteMeter, which makes it easy for me to find out information about my hits, including search terms.

This morning, I noticed that someone had read more than one page on the blog and that they’d found it by doing a UK Google search for “parking lower slaughter”. Since I was curious, I re-ran the search and found that the top hit was on a site with the intriguing name of BeenThere-DoneThat. I clicked through, and liked what I saw (“the Unofficial Guide to Great Britain”), so I’m blogging it here so I have a chance of remembering it. I’ll also dogear it, but that’s only helpful when I have a connection behind the IBM firewall, something I try to avoid when on vacation.